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2025 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Title 16 - COUNTIES
Chapter 5 - Fixing and Relocating Lines and Boundaries
Section 504 - Oath, organization and duties

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16 PA Cons Stat § 504 (2025)
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§ 504. Oath, organization and duties.

(a) Oath.--The members of the boundary commission shall take and subscribe the oath under 53 Pa.C.S. § 1141 (relating to form of oaths of office) prior to assuming duties with the commission.

(b) Organization.--The boundary commission shall:

(1) Meet and organize within two weeks of the appointment.

(2) Select from the commission's membership a chairperson and a secretary who shall keep a full record of the proceedings and work of the commission.

(3) Advertise in not more than two newspapers published in each of the affected counties, a time and place of meeting and when and where parties shall be heard.

(4) Without unreasonable delay after the hearing, ascertain the location and survey and mark with permanent monuments the existing county line between the counties.

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